At 22, Matthew King started The Secret Entrance with a simple question: why do the random, spontaneous parts of life disappear as we get older? Experiment 001 is his answer.
A soldier sees UFOs over Baghdad in 2003. Years later, working at Area 51, he records something he was never meant to hear. Clay Boone's original horror fiction for Feeling Creative.
Colombian circus artist Mauricio Vanegas on learning the Wheel of Death, fracturing two vertebrae and coming back, creating original tricks, and performing with Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas.
Ukrainian oil painter Mari Bloom on fleeing war with twenty dollars and a suitcase full of paints, the Between the Wars series, and why beauty is not decoration but an argument.
Self-published author Ben Cibula on his first in-person book signing: why Twin Peaks sold his novel, why presentation matters more than you think, and what he'd do differently next time.
Filmmaker Rec Revan on OBITUS: a body horror film about a tongue-eating parasite adapted to human hosts, shot independently in Azerbaijan and scheduled for release November 2026.
Canadian/American artist Naomi Fisher on a decade of environmental body art, building costumes from Spanish moss and chlorophyll, and why what we discard is still part of us.
Christopher Valentine completes his Damara/Valiant Knight trilogy with The Valiant Alliance: a 1960s sci-fi hero story about hope, DC mythology, and what modern superhero stories have forgotten.
Saint Petersburg-born artist Evgenia Smirnova on her ongoing watercolor series: imaginary nocturnal landscapes inhabited by whales, bulls, and black cats, painted from feeling rather than plan.
Self-published author Tye Burroughs on the six steps he wished he'd known: planning, drafts, formatting, ARCs, storefronts, and the soul-crushing part nobody warns you about.
At 22, Matthew King started The Secret Entrance with a simple question: why do the random, spontaneous parts of life disappear as we get older? Experiment 001 is his answer.